Land and Water Forum - a nine year experiment in consensus-making - bows out
By Pattrick Smellie June 26 (BusinessDesk) - A nine-year exercise in experimental consensus-building among habitual combatants, the Land and Water Forum, is putting itself "into abeyance" and calling for the creation of a new government agency, a Land and Water Commission, to...
Extended Pohokura gas outage costing Methanex $2M a day
By Pattrick Smellie June 26 (BusinessDesk) - A long-running, barely noticed and unscheduled cut in natural gas production from the Pohokura natural gas field is costing its main customer, methanol producer Methanex, around $2 million a day in lost revenue, with total revenue f...
Batteries make national grid price reforms more important than ever, says electricity regulator
By Pattrick Smellie June 26 (BusinessDesk) - Advances in large-scale batteries for use in the national electricity system make it more important than ever to reform the way different parts of the country are charged for access to the national electricity grid, the Electricity...
NZ King Salmon eyes Cook Strait for large-scale, long term expansion
By Pattrick Smellie June 19 (BusinessDesk) - Nelson-based aquaculture firm New Zealand King Salmon Investments believes fish-farming in Cook Strait, using newly emerging submersible technology being developed in Norway, is the route to realising its ambitions for expansion....
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